19 November 2009 Reporting for The Posse List:  Gregory Bufithis, Scott Madsen and Alex Hania Last week Georgetown Law CLE, in cooperation with the Sedona Conference, presented its 6th Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute.  It was one of the best conferences we’ve attended on e-discovery and that is based on the content covered, the experts/luminaries in the e-discovery field that [...]

  15 November 2009 In June 2009 the Sedona Conference held it’s program Cross-Border eDiscovery and Data Privacy.  The Posse List was there and covered the event (click here). The Georgetown panel was composed of several Sedona participants: James Daley, Kenneth Rashbaum, Lisa Sotto, Alexander Blumrosen and Christian Zeunert. The technology and cultural challenges posed by cross-border [...]

15 November 2009 When it comes to the flow of litigation information, law firms and clients often feel trapped in a cyclone of data that supersedes substantive issues of a case, both in cost and attention from the court.   Ron Hedges  led the panel and discussed the “flow of litigation” and how active case management (by judges [...]

   15 November 2009 The presentation was made by David Shonka (Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission), Miriam Smolen (associate general counsel in Fannie Mae’s litigation department, and in this role she manages complex commercial litigations and government investigations) and moderated by Andrew Goldsmith (First Assistant Chief in the Department of Justice). [...]

15 November 2009 The presentation on Advanced Search and Retrieval Technology was made by Jason R. Baron, Maura Grossman and Ralph Losey, all powerhouses in the e-discovery world. Baron and Losey started off with their multimedia PowerPoint presentation (to the tune of Darude’s Sandstorm which we had just seen at the Capital One Future of [...]

15 November 2009 The Institute ended on Friday with a reconvening of the Federal Judges panel that opened the program the first day.  Much was discussed (generated by questions from the audience) so we’ll highlight only some of the major points: 1.   There was much discussion about privilege, how the volume of information produced by electronic discovery [...]

12 November 2009 The presentation was titled Information Everywhere: Understanding New Technologies and Coping With New Problems and was presented by Judge James Francis (U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York), Anne Kershaw (founder of A. Kershaw, P.C.), Thomas Morrissey (responsible for the development and implementation of technology supporting the Office of [...]

12 November 2009 The first session was a truly all-star U.S. judicial panel: Magistrate Judge John Facciola, Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm, Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan,  Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck,  District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin and Magistrate Judge David Waxe, moderated by Kenneth Withers, Director of Judicial Education and Content for The Sedona Conference. The focus was on the five major subject areas in [...]